The Ironic Ending of “The Story of an Hour.” The ending of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is ironic because the doctors do not understand the true reason for Mrs. Mallard’s death. During the time of Mrs. Mallard’s death, wives honored their husbands and were supposed to spend the rest of their lives with them. Mr. Mallard loved her husband but at times she did not. Within that one hour Mrs. Mallard wanted her husband dead so she could live freely.
It is clear from the imagery of the story that Mrs. Mallard feels hope when she receives the news of her husband’s death; she sees “tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life,” “the delicious breath of rain,” and “countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves” (Chopin 550). Chopin paints the natural world as reflecting the hope that Louise Mallard feels. Mrs. Mallard reacted just the way that she was expected. She wept once and felt into her sister’s arms. Afterwards she ran to her room, and wanted no one to follow her.
While in her room she thought about how long life might be and how it would be. Chopin has Mrs. Mallard repeat, “Free, free, free!” (550). She continued to repeat free because she was finally happy that she knew there would be no powerful will bending her anymore. Now that Mr. Mallard was dead, she had no one to live for but herself.
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Mallard] had died of heart disease—of joy that kills” (551). Doctors, at the time of the story, were mostly men. It is clear throughout the story that men do not understand the feelings of Mrs. Mallard. Within the last hour of Mrs. Mallard’s death she experienced a great amount of joy. Although the doctors felt that she had died of joy, they misunderstood the joy that killed her. The joy she experienced was not from seeing her husband alive, but her realization that the great joy she had experienced in the hour was over because her husband was
It is clear from the imagery of the story that Mrs. Mallard feels hope when she receives the news of her husband’s death; she sees “tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life,” “the delicious breath of rain,” and “countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves” (Chopin 550). Chopin paints the natural world as reflecting the hope that Louise Mallard feels. Mrs. Mallard reacted just the way that she was expected. She wept once and felt into her sister’s arms. Afterwards she ran to her room, and wanted no one to follow her.
While in her room she thought about how long life might be and how it would be. Chopin has Mrs. Mallard repeat, “Free, free, free!” (550). She continued to repeat free because she was finally happy that she knew there would be no powerful will bending her anymore. Now that Mr. Mallard was dead, she had no one to live for but herself.
Mrs. Mallard comes to know …show more content…
Mallard] had died of heart disease—of joy that kills” (551). Doctors, at the time of the story, were mostly men. It is clear throughout the story that men do not understand the feelings of Mrs. Mallard. Within the last hour of Mrs. Mallard’s death she experienced a great amount of joy. Although the doctors felt that she had died of joy, they misunderstood the joy that killed her. The joy she experienced was not from seeing her husband alive, but her realization that the great joy she had experienced in the hour was over because her husband was